Rwanda... The Country

"If I have ever seen magic, it has been in Africa" - John Hemingway. A sentiment shared by most who visit Rwanda, the land of a 1000 hills.

Rwanda’s stunning scenery and warm, friendly people is blessed with extraordinary biodiversity, with incredible wildlife living throughout its volcanoes, montane rainforest and sweeping plains. Nowhere are the mountains more majestic than the Virunga volcanoes in the northwest, and hidden among the bamboo forests are some of the world's last remaining mountain gorillas. For a change of scene, the shores of Lake Kivu conceal some of the best inland beaches on the continent, while Nyungwe Forest National Park protects extensive tracts of montane rainforest, and is home to many primates. There is no sea, but there is plenty of water with sparkling lakes.  There are volcanoes and varying national parks, such as Nyungwe National Park and Akagera National Park which offers Africa’s Big Five, a whole host of primates, and hundreds of bird species. Defiantly land-locked, Rwanda nonetheless has a shoreline to call its own. This is on Lake Kivu, which defines some of the frontier with the DRC.